All Matthew Arnold Quotes
- Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? Byron
- And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. All
- The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards,… Bards
- Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live… All
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. All
- Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. Fall
- We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our… Acts
- The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry Inspirational
- Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. Despair
- For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being. All
- Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Ah
- For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze… Aspire
- He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and… Allied
- But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns. Book
- Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. Bare
- Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming Becoming
- There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail." Better
- Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. Abide
- Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. Beauty
- Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready. Force